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The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist.
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There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.
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Infringing upon the right of a single person, we overthrow the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break the undertakings enter unto, nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly in another.
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As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about severe disasters, if we do turn life in time the social life in new directions.
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Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.
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As humanity has begun with flint tools, and has arrived little by little to the so powerful and perfected machines of today, so man, by shaping himself generation after generation, will arrive to a degree of perfection of which, up to here, the exemple was given to us only by rares individuals.
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It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may build justice.
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To succeed in brilliant businesses, to achieve great success, that is what the ambition and efforts of the majority of men aim at, but after all, what do they get for it? Softer cushions, better meat, more outward thoughtfuls, maybe medals... that is all. And to think that there are found serious men who consume their whole existence in the pursuit and the expectation of these trivialities.
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The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.
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The distinction between right and wrong, is nothing else than their unyielding opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond every empirical data. It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish the real basis of morality.
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Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to the inner development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering soul can set oneself and stick to everything that is noble and generous.
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To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them in a new spirit.
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The fact that men have a same origin and live in the same universe means that they are representatives of a same unity. Deep down, they are also related among them; that they consider themselves as strangers, this just depends on the feeling that dictate their relationships. In their country, two fellow countrymen whose paths barely cross with inference, would effusively rush themselves up into each other arms if they would happen to meet in a desert, among Cannibles.
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Men spend their life down here in the worship of petty interests and the search of perishable things, and with that they pretend to perpetuate for all eternity their self so hardly worthy of it.
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We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
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As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards the accomplishment of its true destinies.
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The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.
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Until now, external authority still dominate too much in the relationships between men, as well as in their spiritual life. This is due to the fact that we regard authority, in all fields, as being what makes the law, because in the empirical field, it is always what come first, may it be a force, an individual or an argument, that is winning.
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If the present civilization does not acquire some stable moral foundations, its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilizations that have preceded it, and which have fallen.
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Men in general are too inclined to let themselves be overawed by what is quantitatively great. It is thus that even thoughtful minds let themselves be impressed by the strength of Napoleon I, to much so that seeing in his person something majestic, when indeed he only have had selfish plans. Half the earth is put to fire and sword to obtain to a man the pleasant sensation of his own absolute power.
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A savage man, questioned on what is good and what is wrong, answered: 'Right is when I defeat and deprive others; wrong is when I am beaten and deprived by them.' This is the voice of the natural man, who does not understand that good is always good, and wrong is always wrong, whether it happens to ourselves or it happens to others.
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There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible; now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim.
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If man do not find in himself the required force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to put himself in the conditions suitable to assist his self-control.
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As long as men, in their aberration, will go out of their way in every manners to harm and torment each others, it is an urgent duty, for those who are conscious of the absurdity of such a state of affairs, to strive to put them in the picture about their wildness.
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Born:
November 15, 1837
Died:
March 26, 1890
(aged 52)
Bio:
Afrikan Aleksandrovich Špir was a Russian Neo-Kantian philosopher of Greek-German descent who wrote primarily in German. His book Denken und Wirklichkeit exerted a "lasting impact" on the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.
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